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Publications10.29.2018

City Works X: 2014-2017

I am pleased to present City Works X, the tenth volume of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s compilation of student work drawn from the Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Design, Master of Urban Design, and Master of Sustainability in the Urban Environment programs. For its tenth volume, City Works has been conceived of anew. The student work showcased

Publications7.18.2018

Counter Institution

Activist Estates of the Lower East Side

Nandini Bagchee

In the midst of current debates about the accessibility of public spaces, resurfacing as a result of highly visible demonstrations and occupations, this book illuminates an overlooked domain of civic participation: the office, workshop, or building where activist groups meet to organize and plan acts of political dissent and collective participation. Author Nandini Bagchee examines

Publications6.25.2018

Structures of Coastal Resilience

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Guy Nordenson, and Julia Chapman

Structures of Coastal Resilience presents new strategies for creative and collaborative approaches to coastal planning for climate change. In the face of sea level rise and an increased risk of flooding from storm surge, we must become less dependent on traditional approaches to flood control that have relied on levees, sea walls, and other forms

Publications6.25.2018

PLOT Volume 7: Magic

Student Editors from the MLA Class of 2019: Nusrat Alam, Hana Georg, Alyssa Martori, Suko Presseau, Garrett Ray, Justin Robertson, and Anna Speidel

Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, PLOT Volume 7 explores the theme of MAGIC. The issue’s content is developed by the second-year MLA student editorial board in collaboration with faculty advisor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and designer Isaac Gertman. Contributions to this issue reveal many rich interpretations of MAGIC, appearing along a non-binary trajectory from

Publications4.28.2018

What Goes Up

The Right and Wrongs to the City

Michael Sorkin

In What Goes Up, Michael Sorkin takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of his beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks not simply the forms and practices—from zoning and political deals to the finer points of architectural design—that

Publications4.20.2018

Depostions by CATHERINE SEAVITT NORDENSON

Depositions

Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson

Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) is internationally known as one of the preeminent modernist landscape architects. He designed renowned public landscapes in Brazil, beginning with small plazas in Recife in the 1930s and culminating with large public parks in the early 1960s, most significantly the Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. Depositions explores a pivotal moment in